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Right wing patriotism as synecdoche
A synecdoche is a figure of speech used to refer to something by using a name other than its own. Totum pro parte is a particular kind of synecdoche, whereby the name of the whole is used to refer to only a part. I might say, for example, “Beijing” when I really mean the Chinese [...][...]